SAN ANTONIO SPINOFFS
Replicating success is a hallmark of sports management. And television. In the NBA, other franchises frequently have raided the San Antonio Spurs for executives and coaches to transplant the Spurs' culture, in the same way that TV raided Norman Lear's classic “All in the Family” to establish new comedies. Here we give the Spurs' spinoffs an “All in the Family” counterpart:
THUNDER/THE JEFFERSONS
Thunder: Clay Bennett, former chairman of the Spurs' board of governors, got his own franchise in the Seattle SuperSonics in 2006. Bennett hired young Sam Presti, the Spurs' assistant general manager, and moved the team to Oklahoma City in 2008, with a civic ownership group similar to San Antonio's.